# OpenAI launches Computer History feature for ChatGPT

> OpenAI is rolling out Computer History, an opt-in feature that logs what you do on your machine as a stream of events, clicks, keystrokes, and app switches, rather than by snapping screenshots the way Microsoft's Recall does. The idea is to give ChatGPT durable context about your workflow so it can pick up where you left off and act more usefully as an assistant. It replaces the earlier Chronicle preview and is reaching Pro, Business, and Enterprise users first, with a delay in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland. The event-based approach is a deliberate contrast with the screenshot-heavy designs that drew privacy backlash, and OpenAI stresses that it captures no images, recordings, or audio. Still, there is a catch worth noting: the local memory files are not natively encrypted, so any program running under the same macOS user account can read them. That makes the feature a useful test of whether behavioral logging feels less invasive than visual capture, or simply moves the risk somewhere quieter.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The New Stack · Published Tuesday, August 18, 2026_

## Wortins' read

OpenAI is rolling out Computer History, an opt-in feature that logs what you do on your machine as a stream of events, clicks, keystrokes, and app switches, rather than by snapping screenshots the way Microsoft's Recall does. The idea is to give ChatGPT durable context about your workflow so it can pick up where you left off and act more usefully as an assistant. It replaces the earlier Chronicle preview and is reaching Pro, Business, and Enterprise users first, with a delay in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland. The event-based approach is a deliberate contrast with the screenshot-heavy designs that drew privacy backlash, and OpenAI stresses that it captures no images, recordings, or audio. Still, there is a catch worth noting: the local memory files are not natively encrypted, so any program running under the same macOS user account can read them. That makes the feature a useful test of whether behavioral logging feels less invasive than visual capture, or simply moves the risk somewhere quieter.

## Source

[Read the full story at The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io/openai-chatgpt-computer-history/)

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